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J.S. PARK

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Wishing you a peaceful weekend ☕️✨

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Wig

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Enjoying the last of the autumn leaves 🍁

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Happy Thanksgiving! 🍁

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Le Désespoir, Jean-Joseph Perraud.

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@lovesdaya

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What I really love about the Archivist Wasp books by Nicole Kornher-Stace is the way that the genre mash-up is tied together by characters. The ghost is a supersoldier trained from birth, a character who resides in a science fiction story. Wasp/Isabel is a priestess-archivist who hunts ghosts and her world is a cultic, fantasy-tinged dystopian where the old order gave way to a new age of hauntings and constellation-gods. And they find each other on an underworld quest, a katabasis, a kind of story that calls back to Greek and Roman epics. They’re characters from two different genres who find each other in a third one, but they ultimately come together because I think they understand each other on some deep, personal level. They’ve both been raised in ruthless worlds and thrust into dehumanizing roles–supersoldier, archivist–that have attempted to strip them of their agency, their personhood, their identity, and even their names, but they fight back against that, uncovering their pasts and hope for a better future on their quest. Wasp/Isabel and the ghost originate from somewhat different genres, but they reach across the gap between them and clasp hands because they’ve been acting out the same story in different ways.

Alternately, I’ve described Archivist Wasp as “What if you put Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Mad Max: Fury Road, and a platonic version of Hadestown into a blender and it works because the real magic is the friends we made along the way” and I still stand by that.

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“For she is a fair maiden, fairest lady of a house of queens. And yet I know not how I should speak of her. When I first looked on her and perceived her unhappiness, it seemed to me that I saw a white flower standing straight and proud, shapely as a lily, and yet knew that it was hard, as if wrought by elf-wrights out of steel. Or was it, maybe, a frost that had turned its sap to ice, and so it stood, bitter-sweet, still fair to see, but stricken, soon to fall and die?" - Aragorn about Éowyn

So!

After the poll results came out, and Eowyn was victorious, I couldn't wait to start working on her. Eowyn, Eomer and Rohan are probably what I love THE MOST, when it comes to the LOTR, and I was actually so happy that she won! And I tried, I honestly tried my best. I am still experimenting with this peculiar style, but I hope to get the hang of it, sooner or later.

And I had so much fun, especially because I got to draw her in my favourite gown of hers, so beautiful, I am still very much coveting it to this day.

Tbh, I had a hard time choosing between this gown, the green one, and the simple one she was wearing in the House of Healing but in the end, the white dress prevailed. <3

well, I hope you will like this.

--Nemo

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Legolas Aragorn and Gimli: *frantically running countless miles for days on end desperately looking for Merry and Pippin*

Treebeard at Entmoot: so aparently this is a hobbit

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